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K-Gr 3 Winter turns her attention to another creative person in this introduction to the life of Potter. As in previous books, she incorporates her subject's own words to add an immediacy to the first-person account. The episodes she portrays deal mainly with Potter as a child and young woman who turned to her drawing and her animal friends in the absence of interactions with parents or friends. Children see how Potter explored science and art to maintain connections with the wider world. Her adult life receives scant attention a...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

This small, square book manages to subtly evoke Potter by mimicking the format and design of her books and including small visual details that may only be noticed by true Potter devotees. Told in the first person with direct quotes in italics, the text offers a brief glimpse of this beloved and much-written-about picture book creator. Winter's goal here (as with her books about Emily Dickinson and Georgia O'Keeffe) seems to be to capture th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More